In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Conclusion from Al-Tabari’s interpretation
It was summarized by Dr. Aqeel bin Salem Al-Shammari
Surah An-Nahl
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
And it will be said to those who fear, “What has your Lord sent down?”
They said good
For those who do good in this world is good
And the home of the Hereafter is better
And blessed be the abode of the righteous
The other team was told
What has your Lord sent down?
They said: Send down goodness
For those who believe in God in this world and His Messenger is an honor from God
The home of the Hereafter is better for them than the home of this world
And how blessed is the abode of those who fear God in this world
So fear His punishment by performing His obligations and avoid His sins
They will enter the Gardens of Eden, beneath which rivers will flow
They have whatever they want in it
Thus God rewards the righteous
Orchards of shrines inhabited by rivers flowing beneath their trees
Those who do good in this world will have whatever their souls desire in the Gardens of Eden
God also rewards those who did good in this world with what was described to you, people
Thus God rewards those who fear Him by performing His obligations and who abstain from His disobedience
Those whom the angels take to death are good, they say
They say: Peace be upon you. Enter Paradise for what you did
Thus God rewards the righteous whose souls are taken by the angels of God
They are good because God blesses them with clean faith
She says to them, “Peace be upon you, go to heaven.”
Good news from God delivered to them by angels
Do they wait for the angels to come to them or for the command of your Lord to come?
So did those before them, and God did not wrong them, but they wronged themselves
Are these polytheists waiting for the angels to come to them and take their souls?
Or the command of your Lord will come to gather them to the place of resurrection
As these people do, they wait for God’s angels to take their souls or carry out God’s command
Their ancestors were disbelievers in God
And God did not wrong them by causing His wrath
But they were wronging themselves
By their disobedience to their Lord and their disbelief in Him until they deserved His punishment, so He hastened them
Then the evils of what they did befall them, and what they used to mock overtakes them
Those of the past nations who did what these polytheists of Quraysh did were subject to the punishments for their sins
And the punishment of God befell them, which they used to mock
Those who associate polytheists say, “If God had willed, neither we nor our fathers would have worshiped anything other than Him.”
Neither we nor our parents have been deprived of anything besides Him
So did those before them. Is there anything other than the duty of the messengers except to deliver the clear message?
Those who associate God with God said, “We do not worship these idols except because God has approved of our worshiping them.”
We do not forbid what we have forbidden from the lakes and deserts
However, God wanted us and our fathers to prohibit it, and He was pleased with it
So did those before them from the polytheist nations, whose Sunnah these people followed
They said the same thing as they said, and they continued their path in denying the Messengers of God
And follow the actions of their misguided fathers
Do our messengers have any duty other than to convey to you the message we have sent to you?
A communication that explains its meaning to the person who communicates it and is understood by the person to whom it is sent
And We have sent to every nation a Messenger to worship God and shun the tyrant
Among them are those whom God has guided, and among them are those who have been led astray
So travel through the land and see what was the end of the deniers
We have sent, O people, to every nation that preceded you a messenger
That they worship God alone, without partners, and devote obedience to Him alone
Stay away from Satan and beware of him tempting you
Among those to whom We sent Our Messenger are those who guide God
So grant him success in believing in Him and acting in obedience to Him
Others were misled
So they disbelieved in God and denied His Messenger
If you people do not believe our Messenger in what he tells you about these nations
So they walked in the land they used to live
So look at the traces of God in them
How did their denial of the Messenger of God follow them?
If you strive to guide them, then God does not guide those who go astray
And they have no helpers
O Muhammad, if you are keen to guide these polytheists to faith in God
God does not guide those whom He leads astray
Don't stress yourself about it
And they have no helper to help them from God if He wants to punish them
These polytheists from Quraish swore by God as hard as they could
God does not resurrect someone who dies
And they lied about the oaths they swore
Rather, God will resurrect him after his death
He promised to send them
He promised his servants
God does not break his promise
But most of the Quraysh do not know God’s promise to His servants
He will raise them alive on the Day of Resurrection after they die
Rather, God will resurrect those who die
A true promise
To show those who claim that God does not resurrect those who die
And for others in which they differ
From God reviving His creation after their annihilation
Let those who deny the truth of this know
That they would resurrect God after his death
And they will resurrect God after his death
And let them know that this is true
They were lying in what they said
God does not resurrect someone who dies
Our saying to something, if we want it, is that we say to it, “Be,” and it is
If we want to resurrect someone who dies
Don't be tired of us
We only say to him, “Be,” and he is
And those who emigrated for the sake of God after they had been wronged
We will surely give them good news in this world
And the reward of the Hereafter is greater
If only they knew
Those who are patient and put their trust in their Lord
And those who left their people and their homes
Enmity toward God for their disbelief
To others besides them
After what happened to them in their souls, which is hateful to God
Let us settle them in this world in a good abode that pleases them
And God’s reward to them for their migration therein is greater
Because his reward is Paradise
These are the ones we have described
They are the ones who are patient for the sake of God over what befalls them in this world
In God they trust in their affairs
We did not send before you except men to whom We revealed
So ask the people of remembrance if you do not know
We did not send before you, O Muhammad, to any nation
To pray for our unification and fulfillment of our commands and prohibitions
Except for men from the children of Adam to whom We reveal
And if you do not know that those whom We were sending to those before you were from the nations
Men from the sons of Adam, like Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace
And you said they are angels
So ask the people of remembrance who have read the books before them
Such as the Torah and the Gospel
And other books of God that He sent down to His servants
With clear evidence and truth
And We sent down to you the Remembrance so that you may make clear to the people what was sent down to them
Perhaps they will think
We did not send before you except men to whom We revealed
We sent them with evidence, arguments and books
And We sent down to you, O Muhammad, this Qur’an
A reminder to people and a preaching to them
So that they may know what was revealed to them of that
And let them remember therein and consider what We have revealed to you
Do those who plot evil deeds feel safe that God will cause the earth to swallow them up?
Or the torment comes to them from where they do not feel
Or he takes them to task, but they are not miraculous
Or he takes them out of fear, for your Lord is Most Compassionate, Most Merciful
Are those who oppressed the believers among the companions of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, safe?
They wanted to seduce them from their religion
May God cause the earth to swallow them because of their disbelief and polytheism
Or God's punishment comes to them from a place where they do not feel it
He does not know where it comes from
Or destroy them in their behavior in the country
And their hesitation in their travels
They will not be able to do that to God if He wants to take them as well
Or destroy them with fear
This is due to a decrease in their limbs and sides
One thing after another until they are all destroyed
Indeed, if your Lord does not punish those who plot evil deeds with a hastening punishment for them
And death took them, and some of them diminished in each other's influence
He is kind to his creation and merciful to them
And because of His compassion and mercy towards them, the earth did not cause them to collapse
Their torment was not hastened
But it frightens them and diminishes them with death
Have they not seen what God has created, whose shadows emanate from the right and the left?
Prostration to God
They prostrated to God while they were bowing down
Have they not seen those who plotted evil deeds?
To what God created of a standing body
Tree, mountain, etc
His shadow returns from place to place
It is the beginning of the day anyway
Then it shrinks
Then he returns to another state at the end of the day
It is the shadows of these things that prostrate
Its prostration is its tilt and rotation from side to side
And hand to hand
They prostrate while they are humble
To God prostrates whatever is in the heavens and whatever living creature is on the earth
Of animals and angels, and they are not arrogant
To God submits and submits to His command whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth, every animal that moves upon it
And the angels in the heavens
They are not too arrogant to submit to Him in obedience
They fear their Lord above them and do what they are commanded
He fears those angels in the heavens
And there is no living creature on earth
They fear their Lord above them, lest He punish them if they disobey His command
They do what God commands them to do and fulfill His rights